Legal Opinion
Saman v. Robbins
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 23, 1999No. Nos. 96-55672, 97-56683, 97-56684, 97-55724 and 97-55789PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Circuit Judge:
This litigation arose from the unfortunate fatal shooting of a San Bernardino shopkeeper, Butres Samaan, by a police officer responding to a burglar alarm, and the events immediately following the shooting. Butres Samaan’s survivors and estate, Yousef Saman, Mohammed Alfaorr, and Roufai Samaan,1 filed civil rights claims against the police officer who fired the fatal shot, several police officers involved in the subsequent investigation of the shooting, various city officials, the City and County of San Bernardino and a deputy district attorney. The court granted several of…
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